Centre to hold talks with 25 states today on food law
December 10, 2014 08:51
The Centre will on Wednesday hold a meeting of Food Secretaries of 25 states/UTs, which have not implemented the National Food Security Act even though Parliament had passed the legislation more than a year ago.
Chaired by Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, the meeting would review the preparedness of these 25 states/Union Territories (UTs) to implement the food security law, which was passed by Parliament in September last year.
So far, only 11 states/UTs have implemented the food security law, which provides legal entitlement to 5 kg of subsidised foodgrains per person per month to two-third of the country's population.
The main objective of the conference is reviewing the preparedness of these states/UTs to implement the Act and progress in end-to-end computerisation of Targeted Public distribution System (TPDS), an official statement said.
The Food Security Act, which came into force from July 5 last year through an Ordinance, provided a period of one year for identification of eligible households, as per the criteria which was to be evolved by states themselves.
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